Jersey is a Decent Sports Drama That Goes On a Bit too Long
Last seen in Kabir Singh, Shahid Kapoor returned to the big screen with Jersey three years later. Adapted from a Telugu film of the same name that was released in 2019, the movie was written and directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri,…
The Fame Game Paints a Slightly Predictable Picture of a Heroine’s Life, Powered by Madhuri Dixit’s Performance
The Fame Game is best characterized as a family drama, and is least effective as a crime series. It includes very little investigative police work, but so much of trite dramatization of overdone tropes. For a Bollywood-obsessed nation, creator Sri…
Bachchan Paandey is a Mostly Average Masala Film Anchored by its Lead Performance
A remake of the 2014 Tamil film Jigarthanda, Bachchan Paandey is one of those safe, mass-entertaining masala films that suffer from being quirky but never tapping fully into the ridiculousness of its over-the-top premise. Star Akshay Kumar seems to be…
Dasvi Updates the Munna Bhai Formula with the Story of a Politician Who Decides to Complete his High School Education
Dasvi has an intriguing premise going for it: a corrupt politician decides to finish up his high school education while in prison as his previously submissive wife becomes a heady politician in her own right in his absence. Drawn from…
A Thursday is a Pulse-Pounding Hostage Thriller that Doesn’t Quite Stick its Landing
A Thursday is clearly meant to be a spiritual successor to the cult hit Naseeruddin Shah-starrer A Wednesday. Both are about a vigilante protagonist going up against the police, driven by societal injustice. This movie, however, is a lot more…
Gehraiyaan Puts in a Surface-Level Effort to Portray Complex Relationship Issues and Childhood Trauma
Gehraiyaan (the depths) is Dharma Productions’ Amazon Prime movie which appears to be a family-drama/romance in the beginning but soon loses itself in the depths of pseudo-psychothriller/surrealism. The plot revolves around the frustrated, distraught Alisha (Deepika Padukone), who is in…
Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein is a Promising Homage to Pulp Bollywood Films of Yesteryears
Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein is a throwback to pulpy 90s Bollywood classics like Baazigar, which makes sense since the show gets its name from one of the film’s songs. It’s about romance, violence, and plot twists, and when it comes…
Inside Edge Amps Up the Drama in its Third Season (and Also Humanizes its Antagonists)
Inside Edge was one of the first Indian web series to capture the audience’s imagination. It mixed high-voltage cricket with behind-the-scenes dealings such as illegal betting and match-fixing. Arriving after a two-year break, the third season shifts the action to…
Little Things Season Four Closes on an Understated, Wholesome Note
Little Things season one had premiered on Dice Media’s YouTube Channel in 2016 and after garnering over 15 million views within days, Netflix picked it up from season two. From thereon, Little Things catapulted to global recognition overnight. The series tells the…
Feels like Ishq is a Light-Hearted Romance Anthology that Struggles to Leave Lasting Impressions
Feels Like Ishq doesn’t aim to change the world, but maybe it should have aimed a little bit higher. The webseries has interesting premises for all six of its stories, but a lot of them are hit or miss. In…
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